[Diesel_Dave]

Around here we often wonder why vehicle manufactures don't do X,Y, or Z to improve the economy of their vehicles (fuel economy and/or total economy).

I had an interesting revelation recently. I've always been a believer in buying used vehicles rather than new ones (for financial reasons). According to cars.com, the average new car loses 40% of it's resale value in the first 3 years. Therefore, you can buy a vehicle 3 years old for almost half off--that still has most of it's life ahead of it. So, not to judge anyone, but from pure economy perspective it doesn't make sense to buy a new car. And yet, obviously, all vehicles are sold from the manufacturer as new. So, therefore, the manufacturers' entire market is to people who aren't buying based on economy. So why design for economy if that's not what your customers are looking for?

Just an interesting thought.